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was directing my energies to the early closing of all of them.  Officers who had been in charge of camps were mustered out and the data for which Reports in conformity with the blanks could be made was not preserved and I presume was not measured.  I could therefore only report numbers of Refugees and Freemen, adults and children, who had been subsisted by the Government and cost of rations.  I found camps and garrisons all over the District burdened with so-called dependents.  More than twenty five thousand persons of that class were feeding from the public Commissary.  The dependents yet at Camp Nelson Key are the only ones remaining. None of them were in Government Employ. None were receiving rations and giving lien upon crops. So miserably had the freedmens